[HN Gopher] Versepad - A text editor for poets
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Versepad - A text editor for poets
Author : notmysql_
Score : 47 points
Date : 2022-11-08 19:54 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (versepad.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (versepad.com)
| BasilPH wrote:
| Pretty cool, it taught me how to write a Haiku:
|
| > Monkey eats apple
|
| > Monkey prefers banana
|
| > Suck it up monkey
| nathell wrote:
| That'd be a senryu. A proper haiku needs to have a kigo - a
| word hinting at a season - and kireji, a cut-word.
|
| (And English is on average terser than Japanese: I read
| somewhere that an approximate equivalent of Japanese 5-7-5
| morae is 3-5-3 English syllables, so the syllable count
| requirement is not absolute. Even Basho's famous crow haiku
| kareDuo niWu notomarikeriQiu noMu is 19 morae rather than 17.)
| unwind wrote:
| This looks really cool!
|
| It feels like it would be a very small step to "RhymePad", i.e.
| an editor designed and optimized for writing rap lyrics which I
| think would be really cool, too.
|
| Perhaps that already exists?
| Bilal_io wrote:
| It's impossible to work with it on mobile due to input
| highjacking. It actively tries to update my input any time I type
| something.
| [deleted]
| jan_Inkepa wrote:
| For ridiculously-specialist poetry-writing software, the maker of
| that pretty Classical Chinese programming language ( https://wy-
| lang.org/ ) people were talking about had also previously made a
| similar editor for Tang-era Chinese poetry -
| https://github.com/LingDong-/cope , which keeps track of tone
| patterns and rhymes.
| mcculley wrote:
| Very cool. I have been wanting some of these features for a while
| and finally got around to my own implementation:
| https://github.com/mcculley/WordWhittler
|
| I welcome ideas on how to do smarter things around text
| composition.
|
| I was heavily inspired having benefited from Remembrance Agent
| back when I lived in Emacs: https://github.com/zzkt/remembrance-
| agent
| nxpnsv wrote:
| Suddenly I invested 30mins in writing some of the worst poetry.
| Great stuff! :)
| sytelus wrote:
| It would be super cool to hook up GPT fine tuned on poetry
| dataset to complete the lines :).
| nathell wrote:
| It'd be cool to have it support villanelles, where you can type
| in the first stanza and it'd pre-fill the patterned lines in the
| remaining five.
| nathell wrote:
| (After typing this, it occurred to me to check if Emacs has a
| mode that supports this. And, sure enough, it does!
| http://www.bobnewell.net/filez/poetry.el)
| WallyFunk wrote:
| If you like this, you may like the Hemingway app:
| https://hemingwayapp.com/
| powersnail wrote:
| How does it determine where are the stresses? Is it based on just
| the word itself?
|
| I'm very new to English poetry, I might be entirely wrong here.
| But when I input some famous poems, the way this app puts
| stresses is quite a bit different from my understanding.
|
| For instance, for
|
| > Bards of Passion and of Mirth,
|
| It sees _and_ as unstressed, the second _of_ as stressed, and
| _Mirth_ as unstressed, which doesn't quite make sense to me to be
| honest.
|
| > Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
|
| It sees both _and_ as unstressed, while my understanding is that
| this verse is better read as fully iambic, putting stresses on
| both _and_.
|
| > And what is love? It is a doll dress'd up / For idleness to
| cosset, nurse and dandle
|
| https://i.imgur.com/raPMDnc.png
|
| It sees four consecutive unstressed syllables. I'm not sure what
| is the logic here.
| DrewRWx wrote:
| I got stuck on consistently detecting syllable stress when I
| tried to write a similar tool, so I'm really interested too.
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